Termites, it’s an pest that can cause massive destruction to our house. If you want to eliminate termites,you have to know what’s their living condition,
characteristics and habits. A thorough understanding of these pest can help us eliminate the harmful creature.

Termite’s living environment is basically related to temperature, Humidity, air, light and soil. Such as damp wood termites, these kinds of termites can be found in fallen trees, dead trees and stumps. They do not nest in soil but in the dead branches of living trees. They preferred damp and moist conditions.

Another termites is dry wood termites(aka Cryptotermes spp) can be found in furniture and antiques. When these termites mature it will fly from an existing colony and enter the wood with a small hole and start to form up a new colony. Maximum population in one colony won’t exceed 3,000. Dry wood termites infest mostly on dry timbers and wood.

There are one more termites call Subterranean termites (Coptotermes spp). The queen of these termites can lay a few thousand eggs per day and raise their population in a colony massively. Subterranean termites are just workers whom work 24/7 but what they did is destroying and feeding on wood and materials containing cellulose. A matured 20 year old subterranean termite queen can lay about 20,000 eggs per day. Subterranean Termites depends greatly on moisture and the workers will build mud-tunnels to travel between their food source and nest.

After knowing these abomination, you must be desperate to know how to destroy these creature. Before you try to eliminate these pest, you need to know where they are hidden and how to find their nest so that you can eliminate them once for all. If not they will just keep coming back to haunt you. In order to find these termites,you might need T3, the latest development in termite detection. To eliminate the termites, you can use baiting system such as Nemesis of Xterm. The best way to do these is to find an professional pest control services company, they can surely help you with your problem.